How is it possible that this video never stops being friggin' hilarious??? I swear, it gets exponentially funnier every time I watch it. I think when the banner gets an update, we really need to include a roller skating Raptors mascot in it.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated. Now I just need to find something worth linking lol.

Just a thought, is anyone else at all interested what it would be like if Shaq rejoined the Lakers I know it won't happen and as a Laker fan I pray it doesn't happen but wierder things have happened. (Yes, it is a very boring off-season now the FA hype is over).

Jason D.: It'll be like C-Webb's second tour of duty in East Oakland, right? LOL.

AK Dave: The Raptor Mascot Loses Control anigif belongs in the banner as much as Scalabrine or Agent Zero do, which is to say that if the Bawful Hall Of Fame was built on the site of Matt McHale: Technical Writer's Infamous Grudge Match Against The Force Of Nature That Is Cricket's Son Ryan, that mascot would be the only inductee of the inaugural class!!!!!

Chris: lol, it'd probably end up worse haha. I can picture it already. Halfway through the season, Shaq has been playing around 10-15 min a game and all of a sudden he somehow breaks a thumb or toe or some small thing. Now he's getting paid to sit courtside and watch a basketball game, like he has for half his career anyways.

The best part of the Raptop-mascot fail is how the tail, after the crash, stands up straight for a second but then deflates, like it's surrendering.

Anaconda: "Good luck to the New York Knicks Medical Staff." <-- I second that. I have a friend who keeps trying to tell me that the Suns' conditions in their contract offer were "disrespectful and a slap in the face" to Amar'e. Seriously? This is a guy with a 40-year-old's knees, and the Suns weren't supposed to at least try and cover their ass a little?

I love Amar'e and the part he played in bringing Phoenix basketball back to the national limelight, but dude, I'm amazed he made it through the last two seasons without another major setback.

BTW, if Bill Walton ever witnessed the greatness that is Raptor Mascot Loses Control, he would say the following:

"I can tell you, Hubie, that this mascot succinctly proves how inaccurate Spielberg's documentary 'The Lost World' was. Again. What's next, a musical comedy based on the Great War? Oh wait, that antimatter compared to such classics as Gone With The Wind and Sunset Boulevard came out the year I signed my mind-blowing contract with Donald Sterling."

The Wojnarowski piece sounds like bitter, slanderous hear-say to me... I was half-expecting him to attach some photoshopped images of James with Hitler's (or M.J.'s?) moustache, at a concentration camp, or something.

Like Anaconda said, the next few months will be a LeBron hate-fest, but after the Heat start kicking ass, more and more people will be quick to forget "the many ways in which Le*insert lame pun* wronged them"...

Clifton - Fun trivia: # of games STAT missed through 2010 season: 140. # of games missed by Yao including all 82 games of the 2010 season: 175. Not including playoffs, and of course habitual injuries vs freak accidents, but the point remains. Use this fun trivia when describing his injuries.

AnacondaHL: Well, there is also the possibility of "habitual freak accidents..."

AK Dave: "Dave, your praise reminds me of the time Larry Bird returned my phone call in '86 and thus changed the fate of the universe forever by guaranteeing me a second Association title. Had he not done so in magnanimous fashion, I would be sitting here today watching my undertalented offspring have 200% the titles I do, and moreover, Lamar Odom wouldn't have had an excellent model on how to escape the grasp of that feudal organization based in Mr. Sterling's cluttered penthouse."